 DAY
TWO
November 13, 2002
All sessions were held in the Montpelier Room, James Madison Memorial
Building.
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
PANEL 1
Causes of the Civil War: Slavery and Race, and the Evolution of
Northern and Southern Culture
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participants
- Robert Forbes, Yale University/Gilder
Lehrman Center (Moderator)
- James L. Huston, Oklahoma State University;
author of The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War
(Presenter)
- Ira Berlin, University of Maryland;
founding director, Freedmen and Southern Society Project, editor
of Slaves without Masters, Families and Freedom, and Free
at Last (Lincoln Prize) (Commentator) Michael F. Holt, University
of Virginia; coauthor, with Jean H. Baker and David Herbert Donald,
of The Civil War and Reconstruction, 3d ed, revised (Commentator)
- Michael F. Holt, University of Virginia;
coauthor, with Jean H. Baker and David Herbert Donald, of The
Civil War and Reconstruction, 3d ed., revised (commentator)
10:45 a.m – 12:15 p.m.
PANEL 2
Why They Fought: Soldiers and Civilians of the Civil War Era
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participants
- Catherine Clinton, author of The Plantation
Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South, Fanny Kemble's Civil
Wars (Moderator)
- Joseph Glatthaar, University of Houston, author
of Partners in Command: Relationships between Civil War Leaders,
Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers
and White Officers (Presenter)
- Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University; author
of Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, coeditor,
with Shannon H. Wilson, of The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected
Essays (Commentator)
- Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County; author of A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall
of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 (forthcoming); The Valley of the
Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War. Part I: The
Eve of War (with Edward L. Ayers) (Commentator)
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch break
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
PANEL 3
General Assessment: Battlefield Leadership in the Civil War
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participants
- James I. Robertson, Jr., Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University; author of Stonewall Jackson:
The Man, The Soldier, The Legend, General A. P. Hill (Moderator)
- Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University; author
of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern
Civilians, 1861-1865 (Lincoln Prize), coeditor, with Brooks
D. Simpson, of The Collapse of the Confederacy (Presenter)
- T. Michael Parrish, Baylor University; author
of Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, Series Editor:
"Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil
War" (Presenter)
- Steven E. Woodworth, Texas Christian University;
author of Davis and Lee at War, Grant's Lieutenants from Cairo
to Vicksburg (Commentator)
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
PANEL 4
Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis: The Commanders-in-Chief
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participants
- Gabor S. Boritt, founder and director of the
Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, Fluhrer Professor of
Civil War Studies (Moderator)
- Phillip Shaw Paludan, University of Illinois,
Springfield; author of The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
(Lincoln Prize) (Presenter)
- William J. Cooper, Louisiana State University;
author of Jefferson Davis, American (Los Angeles Times
Prize in Biography) (Presenter)
- Jean Baker, Goucher College; author of Mary
Todd Lincoln: A Biography, coauthor, with David Herbert Donald
and Michael Holt, of Civil War and Reconstruction (Commentator)
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Concert of Civil War Music, performed by the Federal City Brass
Band (8:00 p.m. Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jeferson Building)
Civil War films
"The Silent Civil War,"
Civil War silent films, with piano accompaniment
(7:00 p.m. Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Memorial Building) |
